2011/04/13

There are tons of site out there that are still using FCKeditor despite the fact that it has been replaced by CKEditor and no work is being done to improve it since long ago.

There are several reasons about that, and one of them is the time cost of upgrading things like the configuration and now there's a little plugin that helps avoid at least one of those problems.

In FCKeditor the definition for Templates (HTML snippets) that the user could insert into the content was available in XML files, but as CKEditor was designed so it could be used in a cross-server environment that meant that the format was changed to JSON in order to load .js files from the server instead of trying to do a XHR that it's quite complex or impossible to do on a foreign server.

But the fact is that most of the people doesn't use CKEditor in such environments and also there are lots of people that have their templates specified in XML files and migrating them to JSON isn't obvious as no tool has been published to carry out that goal. Besides that, I personally find much easier to deal with XML files for the templates instead of the JSON version.

2011/04/09

Following the release this week of CKEditor 3.5.3, I've updated the WriteArea extension for Firefox to this latest version to include all the bug fixes and enhacements that have been worked on since the last release (check the change log, it's quite a long list as it's usual for every CKEditor release)

In this version, the only patch applied to the core is the latest from this ticket that allows a new button that you can use to switch toolbar on the fly.

The size of the extension has grown again a little due to several languages that have been updated since the previous checks that I did and so I've restored as new they can be correctly used to localize your CKEditor and not have part of the texts in your language and the other half in English.